New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-02
A CROWDED TENEMENT BURNED.
oNE LIFE LOST AND MANY POOR PEOPLE MADl
HoMELEss-$2O, 900 DAMAGES.

ONE LIFE LOST AND MANY POOR PEOPLE MADE
HoMELEss-$2O. 900 DAMAGES
Occupants Of the fvestory double tenement houses
Nos 343, 345 and 347 West Forty-third-st.. were
thrown into a panic by a fire that broke out In tho
middle house a few minutes before g. m. yesterday.
The family Of Samuel Simmons the only persons
In No. 345 who up at that hour, and ono of them
upset lamp while preparing breakfast. Leon stoeck-
lin, tho cook Of the Barrett House. lived or the first
floor, and he got his family ont in hurry. The 1ani
tors family and the family Of ZacharIas Mode on the
second floor managed to escape to the street through
the front door. Six families upstairs were obliged to
go out on fire escapes in the and get into the
house No. 343, with which the balconies connected.
Abraham Jacobs, a hardware merchant, who lived On
the third floor, escaped with Mrs. Jacobs and the
servant along with three Of their four children In
their confusion Jacobs and his wife overlooked their
youngest son, Joseph ago five years and left the boy
asleep In the burning building. When they missed
him the amcs had taken possession of their rooms and
II was too late to the child.
Three alarms sounded, calling extra engines,
and the iremen managed to save the adjoining houses
from destruction after hard struggle. Tho fremen
entered he middle house as soon as possible Snd re-
covered the body Of little Joseph Jacobs It was
to the West orty-seventh Street Police Station.
aMa MS the Uuse % 3 to
Smith, of No. 500 East Thirtecnth-st whose loss is
sas BE or BY @ Of Se s
in the house amounted to about $4,000. The house
NO. 34I, owned by an ElgnthaVe. mercnant namcu
Stewart damaged to the extent Of 50 900 by the
flames, and its occupants lost about $o 900.
sTROBRIDGE LTTHOGRAPH BUILDING BURNED
CINCINNATI Dec IA general alarm early this Morn
ing called the entire fire department to the strobridge
Lithographiny Conpanys buIlliag The fames do
vsured the entire building, aud in less than forty
minutes the walls fell In The loss is total and will
probably be not less than 100000. strobridge Co.
have insurance Of 900 In forty cohpanss The fire
started in the second story, but 10 knows how.
The building five stories In height with a front
hundred feet 1t filed with costly machin-
cry including fifteen thographio presses It's stock Of
paper and finished and partly finished work large.
to be $100 0O0 Most of the winter work for
theatrical companies finished, but largo portion
still in tho building, and a number of theatrical
companies will be without material to bill their plays
Among those suffering In this way Charles A.
Hoyts three csmpasies. The Tin Soldier Rag Baby
and Hole In the Ground" Michael StrOgo" Kiralfys
"Lagardars" and Aladdin" Montgomery Ph.ster's
"soap Bubble and Forepaughs and Baraum's crcuses.
The work for the latter however had net advanced far
from the ground missed his footing and fell to the
grOuAd He taken to the hospital with injuries
which may prove fatal. The business is probably the
largest Of its kind In the world One hundred and
twenty five men were employed. Within tho building
tenants James Barclay Job printer. and the Hal
stead Stocking Company. Their loss Will be about
$4,000 each.